Blog Posts tagged ‘Barack obama’

The presidents of Drake University and Iowa State University will attend a meeting Thursday at the White House to discuss how to increase access to college for low-income students, officials said.
Both Iowa State University President Steven Leath and Drake President David Maxwell have pledged to take steps to accomplish this goal. Drake ...

Add U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley to the bipartisan list of politicians agitating for federal approval of a new government health care program for low-income Iowans.
Braley, a Democrat representing Iowa’s 1st Congressional District, sent a letter Thursday to the U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius asking for approval of ...

The state of Iowa still has not received federal approval for its novel plan to expand health care access for low-income residents, Gov. Terry Branstad acknowledged Tuesday.
But the governor was hopeful the state will get the OK from Washington soon, and has asked for a personal meeting with the president ...

Iowa’s two U.S. senators offered sharply different reactions to the Senate’s move on Thursday to rewrite its rules to allow simple-majority votes for the approval of most judicial and administration appointments.
Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin, who has supported reforms to the filibuster since 1995, praised the change in a statement released ...

It’s time for Republicans to develop an agenda for governance, rather than merely protesting the policies they dislike, U.S. Sen. Mike Lee argued before a crowd of social conservatives in Des Moines on Saturday night.
Lee, a Utah Republican and leading conservative in Washington, spoke for more than 35 minutes at ...

Local economies in Iowa lost tens of millions of dollars due to last month’s shutdown of the federal government, according to figures released by a top financial research agency.
In an analysis completed late last month, Moody’s Analytics estimates the Des Moines metropolitan saw a 0.27 percent drop in gross state ...

Congressman Steve King said today that President Obama has done his presidency irreparable harm by falsely promising Americans could keep their existing health insurance once Obamacare took effect.
The Republican said in an interview that he believes Obama’s second term will be harmed. “I think the next three years of his ...

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President Barack Obama today laid out three priorities for moving past the shutdown debacle: passing a budget, immigration reform and a farm bill.
Basically, the president is asking Congress to finish what it has started. The legislation passed Wednesday night requires House-Senate conference committees ...

About a dozen protesters turned out in Des Moines on Saturday for a demonstration against a proposed pipeline that would carry oil from Canada through the Midwest to the Gulf of Mexico.
The “Draw the Line” rally outside the federal building downtown was one of six events in Iowa and part ...